HANA - the backbone for S/4 HANA

HANA – the backbone and engine for S/4HANA Chris Kernaghan

Principal Consultant

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HANA History

SAP HANA SAP BW Powered by SAP HANA

Business Suite powered by SAP HANA

Simple Finance powered by SAP HANA

SAP S/4 HANA

2011 2012 2013 2014 2015

• In Memory platform

• Real time analysis

• Real time reporting

• Real time Business

• OLAP & OLTP together

• SAP Hana Enterprise Cloud

• Instant financial insight

• No aggregates• Single Source of

truth

• Simplified data model• New user experience• Advanced processing • Choice of deployment

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HANA Release strategy

SAP HANA SP XX . XX . XX

Service Packs• Released every 6 months from a single delivery stream.• Cumulative and downwards compatible• Linked with Client toolsRevisions• Released on demand• Sometimes linked to client tools – check release notesData Centre Release• Released every 6 months, after being run on Production systems for 2+ weeks• Recommended for Production systems betweenMaintenance Revisions• Used to keep customers on lower support packages to get defined subset of fixes• Only valid for 3 months

Revision Maintenance Revision

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SAP HANA within the stack

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Example S/4 HANA Landscape

SuccessFactors

Ariba

SAPHanaCloud

Platform

S4 Landscape CustomerDMZ

HANADB/CI

ApplicationServer(s)

Gateway/FioriServer

SLT Server

PIServer

User

Internal Network

Other SAPsystems

Non-SAP systems

SAP Cloud Connector

SAP DataServices

B.ObjApp tier

B.ObjDatabase

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• Multi-tenant Database Containers• Improving deployment options (MCOD, MCOS, MCD)

• DB Control Centre• Ability to manage multiple databases from a single console

• Dynamic Data tiering• Data Lifecycle Manager using temperature control for data

to provide better TCO• Big Data integration

• Integration with Hadoop and Spark• TDI

• Hardware vendors leveraging existing infrastructure• Scale up or Scale out

SAP HANA Evolution SP10 + - Infrastructure

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SAP HANA Evolution SP10 - Infrastructure

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SAP HANA Evolution SP10 + - Developer

• Web IDE platform• No need to deploy HANA Studio to desktops

• Better code checking and performance tools• Expensive SQL trace

• Performance trace

• Memory consumption reports• HCP Extensions

• HANA as the underlying data platform for HCP and S4• Other HANA capabilities

• IOT

• Streaming

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SAP HANA Evolution SP10 + - Functionality• Fiori Screens

• Many administration screens replaced with Fiori apps – eg DB Cockpit• Enhanced HA/DR capabilities

• Better tools for administrating replication and restarts• Backup and Restore

• Incremental backups and Differential backups

• Continuous log replay (Future)• Workload management

• Ability to use mixed workloads by creating workload mapping

• NUMA Optimisations• Cloud deployment

• Security enhancements for multi-tenant deployment

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SAP HANA Evolution SP10 - Functionality